Alright, listen up. If you’re using the Vine video sharing app for anything other than recreating old school N-64 magic with your pets, you’re doing it wrong. This Vine from user MarLo Meekins has been generating buzz on Twitter since last week , and it’s already been called ” the greatest thing on the Internet. ” Dressing up your dog and staging photo shoots was always fun before, but this is just on a whole new level. H/T: BuzzFeed

When Tim Baker began racing to the front lines of unfolding natural disasters 18 years ago, it was just him, his video cameras and the tornado. But those “good old days” are over. Now, when Baker chases tornadoes, he finds himself joined by a mix of curious onlookers, amateurs taking photos with smartphones, and a growing cadre of self-made, semi-professional storm chasers — seeking adventure, wealth or at least exposure for storm videos distributed via social media. “In the last three years it’s become ridiculous,” said Baker, who spoke to HuffPost a day after the latest deadly twister carved its way through central Oklahoma , part of a landscape known as “Tornado Alley.” When he’s going after twisters, he’ll see as many as 15 to 20 cars joining him, many with local license plates, the drivers armed with amateur equipment like small video cameras and smartphones that can record HD video. Whether any storm chasers were caught in latest Oklahoma storm remains uncertain, but a surplus of viral videos posted to the web offer testimony to the increasing prevalence of the amateurs Baker routinely sees. “They don’t weigh the risks,” said Baker, who was featured on The Weather Channel’s “Tornado Road” in 2008.

Apple is aiming to integrate Flickr and Vimeo into iOS 7, a source tells 9to5Mac. The integration is expected to work in much the same way as Facebook and Twitter support does in iOS 6, allowing single sign-ins via the Settings menu. In the case of Flickr, at least, signing in may not only add another option to iOS' built-in sharing menus, but also simplify apps with their own hooks for the …

The tech world has seen a lot of major acquisitions, but WordPress stands out because of its open, yet profitable platform Giant media and internet companies keep scooping up social-media services: among others, MySpace went to News Corp, YouTube to Google, Instagram to Facebook, and now Tumblr to Yahoo. For the young founders and their investors, the trajectory in each case has been 1) create a …

Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a six-year-old company with more than 100 million users but very little revenue, a deal that highlights the shifting balance of power in the technology …